We're pleased to learn that our upcoming Day of the Dead Workshop has been named by InfoHub an Unordinary Trip of the Month. InfoHub is the #1 travel portal on the internet specializing in out of the ordinary vacations. So this is a great opportunity for us to promote cultural awareness of Oaxaca and encourage more people worldwide to visit this unique part of Mexico

Whats more, InfoHub has told us that students who book our course before August 15, 2017 will be eligible for a very special prize from InfoHub's sister company GPSmyCity--publisher of travel apps for Apple and Android. The GPSmyCity app features offline city maps, self-guided walking tours and travel articles for 1000 cities worldwide--turning a mobile phone into a personal tour guide. With this app in hand you can explore Oaxaca, Mexico City and many other destinations in Mexico on your own and at your own pace. The GPSmyCity app also works offline so there no need to worry about roaming cell phone charges when traveling abroad,

A lucky winner, chosen at random, will get a one year full membership to the GPSmyCity app including access to ALL the GPSmyCity content--over 6,500 self-guided city walks and travel articles--a total value worth over $8000!

Mari is currently in an exhibition at the Meueo de Art Popular in Mexico City together with other members of her Oaxaca collectivo. An exploration of immigration in the puebla of Tanivet, the exhibition is the product of many hours spent meeting local families, collecting their histories, and then documenting them in photographs and paintings. These are two of Mari's contributions.

On Thursday, August 7, The Worcester Center for Crafts will launch a unique exhibit that will take viewers on an artistic journey through a world of storytelling. Titled “Ambient Folklore,” the exhibit will provide visual narratives of nine artists, available for exploration and explication by viewers.

“The word ambient talks about something relating to the immediate surrounding of something else,” says Honee Hess, executive director for the Worcester Center for Crafts. "Ambient Folklore is sort of: What are the ideas that are surrounding us that we call from past folklore or that we are using in art to create new folklores? It's all about the things that are around us that are influencing how we make art and how we tell stories through art.”

Click here to visit La Jicara, the bookstore which is carrying Mari Seder's book CUBA: EL TIEMPO SUSPENDIDO / CUBA: TIME SUSPENDED. It's also for sale at the gallery where Mari had an exhibition by the same name in October 2011: Centro Fotografico Alvarez Bravo, located on the corner of M.Bravo and Garcia Vigil.

A solo exhbition of Humberto's latest assemblages opens in Oaxaca next month. The show is titled "Fetishes" and will consist of 25-30 pieces. The location is "Arte de Oaxaca," one of the city's oldest and most established galleries--as well as home to the Rodolpho Morales Foundation. The exhibition begins May 27th.

Humberto has a new show on the gallery walls of Biznaga, one of Oaxaca's most popular restaurants. The opening is Friday night October 15. Biznaga is at 512 Garcia Vigil, and if you're in Oaxaca do stop by to see his latest paintings. Here's one of them!

Three photographs from my series on Cuban Altars have been accepted for the exhibit Captivar La Luz:A Latino Experience. If you'd like to see my other pieces and the other works that will be in the show, here's the link: Texas Photographic Society

And if you happen to be in San Antonio, you can visit the Texas Photographic Society’s exhibition at Blue Star Gallery

Anyone planning a trip to Oaxaca should be sure to pay a visit to Planeta.com, an award winning website with an informed sensitivity to ecotourism and responsible travel. It's creative force is longtime Oaxaca resident Ron Mader, journalist, photographer, and friend to many all over world.

As Ron explains: "Created in 1994, Planeta.com is a handcrafted website aimed at travelers and locals alike who share a common vision of eco-friendly, people-friendly and place-friendly travel."

is a workshop Mari will be teaching in September at the Worcester Art Musuem. The first of two three hour sessions is on Friday, September 24th and will be about giving your portrait photographs an antique look with Fuji Transfer film (AKA Polaroid transfers).

The second session is Friday, October 1st and will deal with transforming your portraits with collage techniques you'll be able to continue using at home.

No prior photography experience is necessary, just a willingness to use your imagination andexperiment.

Mari's Oaxaca collage "Looking for Forest Spirits" has been accepted for the inaugural exhibition at a new art gallery at Worcester State College. In-Between is a juried show of multimedia work by New England artists.Click here for details.

Meanwhile, her large format Polaroid 20" X 24" diptych "RedFiretruck" is a part of the exhibition Art in an Instant and on its way from the Thompson Art Gallery in Weston, Massachusetts to the Thomas Jefferson School in Saint Louis. Plans are also being discussed to have the show travel on to a gallery in Poland.

We're delighted that an article about our workshop is featured in the September issue of Budget Travel. The author is two time Art In Oaxaca alumnus Joan Gage. It's called "Indulge Your Passion" and it describes a course Joan took with us in February last year.

Unfortunately the article is in a supplement only sent to Budget Travel subscribers, not in their newstand publication or at their website. Which is why we're providing a link where you can download a copy. Just click here.

Welcome! And please watch this space! It's our Art In Oaxaca blog--a sort of bulletin board where we'll be putting up news about our workshops, students old and (hopefully) new, what the instructors have been up to, plus any other items we think you might find useful or interesting.